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Born an English middle-class Quaker , she emigrated, probably as an adolescent, and lived her mature life as an American.

Her father, John Wright, who had trained as a doctor and became a Quaker minister, settled by 1714 at Chester, Pennsylvania. In America he worked in various ways, as a farmer, a ferryman, and...

It argues (before such arguments had been put forward in America by Abigail Adams , Judith Sargent Murray , or Mercy Otis Warren , but drawing on beliefs current among Quakers since their mid-seventeenth-century origins)...